Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-07-08
THE BOOMING UNION.

THE BOOMING UNION.
THE GREATNESS OF THE UNITED
STATES AMONG THE NATIONS.
what We Are Worth and How We are
Growing-The Richest and Biggest
Country I'm the worla-A Look at Ohio
and Its Cities-Facts About Mansfield.
| Especial Correspondence a-af
Won MANSFIELD, O., July 1.
The United States Is the baby giant Of
modern times. Il already towers above ita
fellow nations, like Gulliver among the Lilli-
putians, and It grows faster than Jacks ia
bled beanstalk or Aladdins wonderful pal
ace. With Sc, OOO, 900 in 1880, it has been jump
| ing ahead at the rate Of more than z, OOO, 900
year, and it Il already the greatest agricul-
tural, the greatest manufacturing and the
| greatest mining nation of this big round
| earth.
1t ID the richest nation in the world, and it
saves more every year than any other people
According to the millionaire. Andrew Car
negie, many Of whose figures 1 give in this
letter, we pile up 81, 500, OO0. 900 yearly, and
this is $500, OO0, 900 more than the savings Of
England and $3.50, O0O, 600 more than those of
economical France. We do this while our
laborers eat meat three times q day, and
while we throw to our dogs the leavines
which IL is said would more than equal the
food Of the Frenchman's tables
In 1880 the United States was worth $50. OOo :
OOO,OOO. which made US then s'rich enough to
have bought out Great Britain and Ireland.
and to have paid its national debt, rich
enough with our $4,000, 900 people to have
bought the $50, 900, 600 of Russians, Austrians
and Spauiards, or after purchasing wealthy
France, TO have left enough pocket money to
buy outright all of Denmark, NORWAY.
Switzerland and Greece"
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This was seven years ago. Since then our
pile has been increasing faster than the COM
pound interest Of the pawnbroker. We have
more than GO, 0O0, 900 people and strong as this
our great giant is, it is still in swaddling
clothes, and 1t has not begun to appreciate
the possibilities Of its future.
Carnegie estimates that the present normal
growth OF Europe and the United States will
give to each coz, 100000 people before
1880, and that within fifty years the United
States viii have over 1SO, 600, 900 people. and
that these will Be worth $2o0, 600, O0o, 0OO
Such figures are beyond comprehension
They only show that America is in its in
fancy, and that an age of prosperity has
come to stay. -.
The eyes Of other nations must grow pream
with envy when they think Of it, for however
equal God creates men, He has certainly not
done 50 with nations. The United States IL
His favorfte child Out Of His store of 400. 600
square miles Of coal he gave the United States
100000, or three-fourths Of all the coal in the
world. He held the land from them until it
was covered with the choicest Of timber. To
this he added oceans Of petroleum, and now
on top OF it all He has thrown in the natural
gas. Single holes in the ground now turn
out what is equal to hundr eds Of tons of coal
day without mining or carrying, and the
smoky city Of Pittsburg is growing clean
from the change Of its fuel. One man does
the work OF hundred, and the nation has
unlocked the store box Of a wealth that ten
years ago 1t had no idea was among its
possessions How big this store box is it
does not know, and within two yc--e it has
found 1t to cover several states more than &c
supposed. Pennsylvania's petroleum and
natural gas are now found in different parts of
Ohio and Indiana, and all over the Buckeye
state wells are being driven into the bosom
OF old mother earth to let out the oleaginons
milk which, by the touch of match. burns
into fiery gold. It is the same almost with
petroleum, for the new fluid Is turned to new
uses daily, and it promises to make a great
part Of the fuel Of the world
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The world has never known such growth of |
cities as Is now going on in America.
"What is New York to Londonw said a |
young English cockney to me one day when |
We were crossing the ocean together: aLondon |
has 5000 900 and New York has little more |
than 1000, OOO"
SYes," l replied, london may have
). 600, though that Is an overestimate bnt |
New York with it's suburbs has now about
$780, 600, or half a. much as London. And
went on, "look at the age of the two cities.
WI. IN Jesus Christ was a babe. over 800
years ago, London had already begun to be-
Give New York 1900 years and London will
De village compared to it."
It Is now, next to London, the biggest city
n the world, and it has doubled its population
n twenty years. London has doubled since
lo4o, ana at the present rate Of the growth Of
london and New York, Carnegie estimates
hat they will be equal within forty wears.
md that in 1920 the two cities will each con.
ain 10 1000, 900 people.
This growth of great cities has been po;np
m over the whole United States. and the
growth was never greater than it is lust
'ow. The proportion of town population is
o per cent. greater than fifty years ago. and
II our population one out of every four lives
n community large enough to be called a
ty, while fifty years ago fourteen out of
fifteen lived in the country. This rush to the
titles has much to do with the real estate
'oom which is spreading over the country to-
lay. 1t has had much to do with making the
growth of cities over the Tn ted
states, helping Chicago to its 700. coo peon,e
n half century, and putting Milwaukee, tn
IS l25,OOO in the same time Fifteen of the
lfty biggest cities in the United States had no
xistence in 1880, and San Francisco was mn.
nown in 1874 In 1880 st. Paul had AZ OOO {
eople, In 1885 its estimated population was
~, 600, and Minneapolis, only few miles off
ad grown to 10000 from a less start {
,leveland had 1000 people in 1890 and one I
its leading citizens told me YESTERDAY ;ts
resent population is over $50, 900. WASHING. 7
on In this time has grown in like manner and I
Aansas City, repeatedly doubling its a0O :
eOple. which IL had in 14ss H.. 10 80 | i